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Wed, 18 Nov 2015 02:36:51 +0000http://www.modernmami.com/?p=11158The holidays are already a fun time for many, but celebrating the holidays at Disney just adds to the magic, don’t you think? Partaking in the fun of Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party was something I didn’t get to experience as a child, so I never knew how magical the Disney parks could be during […]

]]>The holidays are already a fun time for many, but celebrating the holidays at Disney just adds to the magic, don’t you think? Partaking in the fun of Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party was something I didn’t get to experience as a child, so I never knew how magical the Disney parks could be during the holidays until I had kids of my own! Now, we really enjoy the fun of Disney holidays and look forward to spending a fun family night at Disney World. Check out a few of the reasons we think your family should make a trip to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party!

9 Reasons to Visit Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party at Walt Disney World!

Beautiful Cinderella Castle: The famous castle gets a bit of a makeover as Queen Elsa gives it her touch during “A Frozen Holiday Wish,” turning it into a glittering ice palace! It’s definitely a stunning sight to see.

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmastime Parade: A great parade is always fun for kids and this one features plenty of Disney characters, as well as a special surprise ending with Santa Claus!

Holiday Wishes – Celebrate the Spirit of the Season: Nightly fireworks are always a fun way to end the day at Magic Kingdom and the holiday version doesn’t disappoint!

Live Holiday Shows: Featuring Disney characters, shows like “Celebrate the Season” and “A Totally Tomorrowland Christmas!” are sure to get you and your family in the holiday spirit!

Special Meet-and-Greet Opportunities: Many of your favorite Disney characters are out and about the Magic Kingdom, decked in their holiday attire. You may even catch some not-as-common characters to add to your scrapbook!

Complimentary Treats: During Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, you’ll be able to enjoy complimentary hot cocoa and cookies at various locations throughout the park. (Apple juice and apple slices are also available.)

Snow on Main Street: We love walking out of the park at night under the “snow” on Main Street, U.S.A!

Shorter Lines: Many Magic Kingdom attractions are open during Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, but you’ll love being able to enjoy them with shorter lines! We rode Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin in Tomorrowland multiple times in one night – it was easy to just walk on!

Character Dance Party: My kids and I love the dance party opportunities each year, where the DJ spins family-friendly hits and kids get to dance next to favorite characters! This year, we had a lot of fun with Phineas and Ferb at Club Tinsel in Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café!

Celebrating the holidays with a visit to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party is sure to be a memorable addition to your family’s holiday fun. It’s definitely something you should experience at least once! Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party is a special event not included with your regular Magic Kingdom admission and one that sells out fast! But, with 20 nights available from November 8 through December 18, 2015, you still have time to enjoy the festivities!

If you’ve been to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party before, what’s your favorite part?

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Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:00:23 +0000http://www.modernmami.com/?p=8092Every year the Walt Disney World Resort pulls out all the stops to celebrate the holiday season. Guests visiting the resort can navigate through a magical winter wonderland without the accompanying frigid temperatures. Experiencing all that Walt Disney World has to offer during the holidays is a near impossible task. In order to provide you […]

Every year the Walt Disney World Resort pulls out all the stops to celebrate the holiday season. Guests visiting the resort can navigate through a magical winter wonderland without the accompanying frigid temperatures. Experiencing all that Walt Disney World has to offer during the holidays is a near impossible task. In order to provide you with enough highlights of holidays around the (Walt Disney) World, Melanie and I teamed up on a two part series of posts to share the magic of Disney holidays. This first part will focus exclusively on Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, an annual holiday themed hard ticket event held at the Magic Kingdom. Stay tuned for part 2 of this series where we’ll bring you information from the other three theme parks and focus on Epcot’s Candlelight Processional.

On select nights through December 20, the Magic Kingdom plays host to a special holiday event that presents guests with exclusive access to special parades, unique character meet & greets, holiday treats, and the intricate Disney theme that families all over the world have come to associate with the parks. Perhaps the biggest draw to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party is Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmastime Parade which features your favorite Disney characters, along with a very special guest at the end, navigating throughout the park interacting with kids and adults alike.

Cinderella took special notice of Melanie’s son, a Prince Charming in his own right, and gave him the royal wave. The highlight of the parade though has to be the toy soldiers who march lock and step with one another.

A certain white bearded man in red closes out the parade giving it the grand finale it deserves. If you watch the parade on Main Street, you will experience a dash of snow as only Disney can deliver. Be warned though that this is a popular viewing spot, but if you watch the second showing of the parade you can avoid most of the crowds.

Due to the limit on ticket sales for this hard ticket event, most of the popular attractions at Magic Kingdom have little to no wait. A new addition this year to the party is the holiday theme added to the classic attraction the Jungle Cruise. Renamed as the Jingle Cruise, the ride takes guests on a riverboat journey manned by a skipper who regales guests with tales of animal adventures in the dangerous Jungle. While the ride remains largely the same as it did under its normal name, the queue definitely contains holiday theming throughout. The reimagined attraction was very popular during our visit so we recommend hitting this attraction as soon as you arrive to maximize your time experiencing other aspects of the party.

Arguably even more popular than the Jingle Cruise are the various character meet & greets. If your family enjoys meeting their favorite Disney characters then you will not be disappointed at Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. Throughout the park you will have a number of different opportunities to meet characters in unique holiday attire. We chose to visit the Diamond Horseshoe in Frontierland so that we could partake in a dance party that featured Woody and Jessie from the Toy Story franchise. Melanie’s kids didn’t hesitate in joining the conga line and also doing their best impressions of the Macarena. If you’re interested in meeting characters but don’t want to necessarily get in a lengthy line for a simple photo-op, then the dance party at the Diamond Horseshoe is what you want to do.

All that dancing worked up everyone’s appetite so that meant that we needed to treat ourselves to the complimentary cookies and hot cocoa. You will find these delicious treats throughout the park with a minimal wait time. Feel free to take advantage of this add-on as often as you like. If you or a family member has a special dietary need then the cast members will be sure to accommodate you.

The Holiday Wishes Fireworks Show serves as the perfect nightcap to the holiday festivities. Backed by various holiday tunes, the fireworks light up across the night sky making them visible throughout the park. If you want to add a special holiday flair to the show and to your night as whole you should consider obtaining a pair of Glow With the Show Ears. This unique take on the classic Mickey ears hat features two ears that light up and sync with the music of the show. The ears light up with random colors during other times of the night and were a popular item among the guests visiting that night.

Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party continues the annual tradition of Disney holiday theming for guests of all ages. The event is a separately priced hard ticket that is not included with regular admission to the park. This special celebration at the Magic Kingdom should be given consideration as you plan your holiday entertainment this year. However, please note that the other three Disney parks are not left far behind when it comes to Disney holiday magic. In part two of this series of posts, we will upgrade our animal adventures from the Jingle Cruise, attend perhaps the best musical show in all of Walt Disney World, and bear witness to an extravagant Christmas light spectacle that has to be seen to be believed.

What’s your favorite part of Disney holiday magic?

An IT professional by day and a theme park addict all day, Ricardo Escobar is proud to call Orlando his home, one of the world’s top vacation destinations. Ricardo applies his passion for attractions by sharing the latest and greatest in family entertainment for modernmami™ readers. Follow Ricardo on his adventures and connect with him via Twitter and Instagram.

Disclosure: We were provided complimentary tickets to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party in order to facilitate this review. All thoughts and opinions are our own.

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Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:12:12 +0000http://www.modernmami.com/?p=6015Christmas is a special time for Central Florida theme parks – each park hosts Christmas events and is adorned in beautiful holiday decorations. Walt Disney World, of course, is no exception and hosts Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party at the Magic Kingdom. This special night-time event is not included with regular Magic Kingdom admission, but […]

]]>Christmas is a special time for Central Florida theme parks – each park hosts Christmas events and is adorned in beautiful holiday decorations. Walt Disney World, of course, is no exception and hosts Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party at the Magic Kingdom. This special night-time event is not included with regular Magic Kingdom admission, but is an event that you and the kids will love.

We were able to enjoy the festivities again this year via a media invitation to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. Baby boy was able to enjoy a lot more this time since he’s now walking and able to partake in the fun. He and his big sister enjoyed riding several rides, meeting some characters, and of course, snacking on cookies and hot chocolate. I always enjoy seeing Magic Kingdom decorated for Christmas and just walking around taking in the sights. Christmas and Disney World make a good combination, don’t you think?

Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party began on November 9 this year and continues through December 21, on select nights. A very family-friendly event, this Magic Kingdom Christmas party includes various holiday-themed fun:

Cinderella’s Castle is decorated with Christmas lights that change color.

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmastime Parade will be enjoyed by the little ones and they’ll love seeing Santa Claus at the end!

Exclusive holiday fireworks – Holiday Wishes: Celebrate the Spirit of the Season – can be seen during Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party.

Special shows and entertainment featuring Disney characters are scheduled each night of the party.

Disney characters dressed in their holiday best are available for pictures and autographs. Special characters also tend to make an appearance that normally are not in the parks, such as Donald Duck’s Uncle Scrooge.

Complimentary cookies, apple slices and hot cocoa are provided throughout various locations in the park.

Walking down Main Street, U.S.A. with “snow” falling on you is always fun, especially for the kids!

Several of the Magic Kingdom rides and attractions are open for you to enjoy with less lines.

If you’re local to the area or plan to visit Walt Disney World this December, consider attending Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party; you still have time as the event will be held several nights in December this year and goes from 7 p.m. until midnight. Several other holiday events are also happening throughout other Walt Disney World parks – see Disneyworld.com/holidays for more information!

What do you enjoy most about Christmas at the theme parks?

Disclosure: We received complimentary admission to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party to experience the fun as a family.

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http://www.modernmami.com/orlando-central-florida-attractions/mickey-very-merry-christmas-party/#commentsMon, 21 Nov 2011 17:26:11 +0000http://www.modernmami.com/?p=4528My family and I recently attended Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. We were part of a media group invited to attend as guests of Disney and were able to join the fun of celebrating Christmas Disney-style. This is our second year attending Mickey’s Christmas Party and it […]

]]> My family and I recently attended Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. We were part of a media group invited to attend as guests of Disney and were able to join the fun of celebrating Christmas Disney-style. This is our second year attending Mickey’s Christmas Party and it was just as fun as our first time attending!

Some of the highlights of attending the holiday events at Disney World are special character sightings, special event merchandise for those who collect Disney merchandise, and event-only parades and other activities. During Mickey’s Christmas Party, we got to see Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmastime Parade, which has a special appearance from Santa at the end. You can also catch a holiday version of Wishes, Magic Kingdom’s fireworks show. There were also a couple of character-themed dance parties for the kids; baby girl got to dance with Jessie from Toy Story!

Throughout the night, we spotted some new characters we had never run into in the past: Abu from Aladdin, the bears from Frontierland’s Country Bear Jamboree, and Captain Jack Sparrow. I’m not sure if these characters are normally out and about at the parks and we’ve just missed them, but I know that it was our first time being able to get their autograph and picture. We actually had something really nice happen to us as we were waiting for Abu’s autograph. As is normal for character greetings, Abu and Aladdin were switching out with Jasmine and the Genie. The only character my girl was missing was Abu, since she’s met the others at previous park visits. As she was getting close to the front of the line, it was announced that only one more person would meet Abu and Aladdin, as Jasmine and the Genie were about to come out. So, baby girl was going to miss her chance to meet Abu! But, the very nice little boy in front of her told her it would be okay to switch places since he was fine with meeting any of the characters!

Something my girl was really looking forward to was the complimentary hot chocolate and cookies that are provided to guests throughout the park. The night we attended, it was actually pretty cool out and windy, so hot chocolate came in handy. The snow on Main Street is also a fun treat! Another bit of Disney magic that happened for us that night was not being charged for baby boy’s skullcap; the cashier told my husband as he went to pay, “I can’t let the baby be cold!”

We had a nice evening out and enjoyed seeing Magic Kingdom decorated for Christmas. It’s always fun to visit the parks during these special events because you see them in a whole new way. In the coming weeks, we plan to visit Disney’s Hollywood Studios to see the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights.

Have you ever visited Disney World or Disneyland during the holidays? What is your favorite part?